奮迅(ふんじん)

ふんじん
noun
furious energy; great vigor
formalabstract
1. furious energy; great vigor (in action)
Energetic, all-out effort in action. Rarely used alone; appears almost exclusively in the four-character idiom 獅子(しし)奮迅(ふんじん) (charging like a lion).
獅子(しし)奮迅(ふんじん)の活躍(かつやく)を見(み)せた。
He performed with lion-like energy.
彼(かれ)は試合(しあい)の後半(こうはん)、獅子(しし)奮迅(ふんじん)の勢(いきお)いでゴールを決(き)めた。
He scored a goal with furious energy in the second half of the match.
締(し)め切(き)り前(まえ)の彼女(かのじょ)は獅子(しし)奮迅(ふんじん)の働(はたら)きで資料(しりょう)を仕上(しあ)げた。
Before the deadline, she finished the materials with the furious energy of a charging lion.

Almost never appears alone — learn it as part of 獅子(しし)奮迅(ふんじん) (charging like a lion), a four-character idiom (四字熟語(よじじゅくご)) praising someone for working or fighting with overwhelming intensity. Used in sports commentary, news headlines, and admiring descriptions of someone's effort.

Common collocations

Formal/literary register; less common in casual conversation than in writing.

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